Voting rights advocates and Nevada officials announced today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in order to streamline and modernize voter registration opportunities through the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Demos, Project Vote, the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada (ACLU), and the law firm Armstrong Teasdale LLP, working on behalf of the Mi Familia Vota Education Fund, the League of Women Voters of Nevada, and voter Eleanor Newell, held discussions with the office of the Governor, the DMV and Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s office to develop a protocol and timeline for bringing Nevada into compliance with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).